I was looking at the fantasy/allegorical authors I most like reading, and came to a conclusion ( Read more... )

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered ( Read more... )

"If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: "It's gonna go wrong." Or "She's going to hurt me." Or,"I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . ." Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. You've got to jump off the cliff all the ( Read more... )

Science-fiction is the law-abiding citizen of imaginative literature, obeying the rules, be they physical, social, or psychological, keeping regular hours, eating punctual meals; predictable, certain, sure ( Read more... )

K, yeah, you know all the un-apologetic fangirling I've been doing over the genius of Ray Bradbury lately? I have another item to add to that; I'd completely forgotten this until I re-read the first seventy pages of A Graveyard for Lunatics.

( One More Reason For You All To Love Bradbury: )

*waits eagerly for the mailman*

I ordered A Graveyard for Lunatics, which is my third favorite Ray Bradbury book, right after Fahrenheit 451 and Dandelion Wine. It's actually the first one I read, which is odd, because the library I borrowed it from also had R is for Rocket which had a much more interesting cover. But I was just browsing one day, ( Read more... )

"The point is obvious. There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be it Baptist/Unitarian, Irish/Italian/Octogenarian/Zen Buddhist, Zionist/Seventh-Day Adventists, Women's Lib/Republican, Mattachine/FourSquareGospel feels it has the right, the duty to douse the kerosene ( Read more... )